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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6578055" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Real-world verisimilitude isn't all that important. The important thing is that the player and the DM are on roughly the same page - that the DC of the check depends on the difficulty of the task, following these guidelines for relative complexity. I guess there's a chance that you or the DM might actually know a lot about boat-building... in which case you might decide that it's a slightly different DC, still probably between 15 and 25. If the player knows a lot more about boats than the DM does, then the DM will probably defer to player judgment in this case (not that they're going to be very far apart either way).So what I'm saying is that the player can predict what the DM will decree, with a fair degree of certainty. The system in place for that is fairly well-codified. You know what type of check you need to make, and roughly the DC. You know how long it will take, and how much it will cost you in raw materials.</blockquote>